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Drug Solutions Podcast: Equipment Trends for Addressing Production of New Modalities
Author(s)Feliza Mirasol
The growing development of new biotherapeutic modalities will rely heavily on automation and progressive technologies.
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In this episode of Drug Solutions, the discussion revolves around current and anticipated new trends in equipment and technologies for optimizing the manufacture of new biotherapeutic modalities, such as cell and gene therapies. Automation technologies and continuous manufacturing emerges as significant drivers for the future biomanufacturing landscape. Innovative and progressive technologies will also play a role in establishing and maintain sustainability practices in the industry.
About the Speaker
Kerry Love, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO, Sunflower Therapeutics
Kerry Love, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of Sunflower Therapeutics, a women-owned and led biotechnology company delivering next-generation protein manufacturing solutions that anyone can use to create innovative new medicines, vaccines, foods, and other bio-produced materials. Love is an organic chemist by training, performing her doctoral studies at MIT, and a biotech entrepreneur at heart, having founded two companies and contributed to the starting of many more over the past twenty years. Love has authored more than 40 scientific papers and patents.
About the Drug Solutions Podcast
Pharmaceutical Technology presents the Drug Solutions podcast, where the editors will chat with industry experts from across the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical supply chain. Join us as experts share insights into your biggest questions—from the technologies, to strategies, to regulations related to the development and manufacture of drug products.
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